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Attendees at this week’s CCA event heard a pledge from FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler to tackle several hot-button topics for rural and regional carriers SEATTLE – Just weeks after taking the stage at the CTIA Super Mobility event in Las …

Wireless carriers know they need to densify their networks with urban small cells to support today’s data traffic and tomorrow’s “5G” networks. But as they work to deploy in public spaces, carriers and their agents are getting a crash course …

Sprint is on a comeback. But what exactly does that mean? I have followed them over the last few decades as a wireless analyst and I would say Sprint is better and faster than ever before. I also sense there …

A new enterprise survey from Accenture finds enterprises have a keen interest in migrating towards network SDN and NFV platforms The telecommunications market’s increasing adoption of virtualized technologies like software-defined networking, network functions virtualization and cloud platforms is set to …

LitePoint said it has launched the first over-the-air test system for Bluetooth low energy devices, also known as Bluetooth Smart. The company’s new Bluetooth Advanced test system supports OTA characterization and verification of device operations. Bluetooth low energy is increasingly …

5G hype is everywhere, but can’t we all just take a breath and let the engineering folks figure out what it means before the marketing folks take over? Hello! And welcome to our Friday column, Worst of the Week. There’s …

Continuing to build out its global infrastructure, while leveraging hardware designs compiled via the Open Compute Project, Facebook announced it will break ground in October on its seventh data center. The new facility is said to be “one of the …

Mobile operators claim 20M users, adding 17,000 per day, while the connected car market begins to take shape … 22 years ago this week Editor’s Note: RCR Wireless News goes all in for “Throwback Thursdays,” tapping into our archives to …

Huawei discusses ways in which rural and regional wireless operators can increase broadband access using hybrid network models Rural broadband connectivity remains a significant challenge for mobile operators faced with trying to conceive of business models allowing for broad network …

Ericsson said the new launch will help boost broadband coverage in underserved areas by decreasing total cost of ownership Swedish vendor Ericsson said it has unveiled a new set of solutions to target emerging markets with a goal to help bridge the …

Use cases for analyzing data ATLANTA – Ron Bodkin, founder and president of Think Big, hosted a panel titled “The key to unlocking value in the internet of things? Managing data!” at the Teradata PARTNERS 2016 conference in Atlanta, and emphasized …

IoT accelerators focus on deployment and maintenance ATLANTA – Teradata highlighted the company’s late August release of four accelerators built to speed up the transformation of “internet of things” data to actionable insight during its PARTNERS 2016 conference. The company’s “Analytics of …

Since its beginning, Black & Veatch has had close ties to the public sector. Engineers E.B. Black and N.T. Veatch had been in business for just two years when the U.S. government asked them to supervise construction of military training …

What is the internet of nanoscale things? Nanoscale technology is enabling the development of devices as small as one to a few hundred nanometers (10^-9 meters). To give a sense of scale, a strand of human DNA is roughly 2.5 nanometers in …

At CTIA’s Super Mobility show, test companies tapped into top-of-mind issues including “5G,” the “internet of things” and indoor coverage that have been central to industry discussions at the show this week. Rohde & Schwarz announced testing support for the low-power, wide-area …

Open fiber network provider Chorus is expanding the reach of its wholesale broadband footprint with the goal of, “Making New Zealand a true ‘Giganation,” CEO Mark Ratcliffe said. Chorus owns fiber and copper networks, which it makes available to other …

Smart trains and the connected railway The industrial “internet of things” has had a major impact on the transportation industry, with the advent of autonomous vehicles and improved cargo management. One area that has seen less coverage is the connected …

The industrial “internet of things” will be fully realized when seemingly dormant objects are brought to life with networks, sensors and data analytics. That’s why a case study, provided by the IoT M2M Council, on connected school “flashers” is as …

In our article, Cloud computing 101: Advantages and disadvantages, we defined cloud computing and discussed some of the benefits and challenges that come with transitioning from local servers to the cloud. We also took a look at the top 5 …

U.S. carriers are racing to connect sensors, meters and wearable devices to their LTE networks before the companies that make these devices decide to instead use low-cost networks operating in unlicensed spectrum. For the companies that make connectivity chipsets, helping …

1. Samsung is putting safety ahead of profits by recalling its new Galaxy Note 7 smartphone amid reports of explosive batteries. Roughly 35 people said their phones caught fire during or after charging. More than 2 million of the phones have …

Sprint and T-Mobile showed that when it comes to nonsensical rate plan moves, they are indeed leading the market … and we all benefit Hello! And welcome to our Friday column, Worst of the Week. There’s a lot of nutty …

Machine vision sales growth stuck in single digits despite advent of Industry 4.0 Very sophisticated sensor technology is key to the next phase in the development of the “internet of things.” Machines, vehicles and devices will need to be able …

Rohde and Schwarz recently achieved what it claims is the first Global Certification Forum validation of 64 quadrature amplitude modulation in the uplink, for LTE-Advanced Pro. Carrier aggregation in the uplink takes the maximum uplink rate for an LTE user …

Leading the industrial IoT The industrial “internet of things” and its billions of projected devices has set companies from every end of the technology spectrum on a race to become the go-to solution in connecting enterprises. Here are the top five companies …